YIGAL CALEK & THE LONDON SCHOOL OF JEWISH SONG - REUNION 

איזה נוסטלגיה יא אלה... כמה הייתי שומע אותכם. שרתי איתכם עכשיו איתכם בבית את כל השירים. ממש התרגשתי. מאד.

I'm young so I've never ever heard of this choir before today. This was so unbelievably enthralling and emotional to see and hear. I wish Yigal Calek a long life

20 year old listener here. First time hearing some of these Yigal classics and I've been infatuated with the music ever since. Listening on repeat and picking apart the beautiful harmonies. Thoroughly impressed they all remember their parts from their childhood and also believe their matured voices have vastly improved their sound together. Kol Hakavod to all participants.

מאוד התרגשתי ,על השירים האלה גדלנו,הם בנשמתנו עד היום ,כל הכבוד

50 years to short...yigal calek and the London school of jewish song run 24/6 in my house!!my grandchildren sing every song!!!nothing comes close!!!! Your music changed the Yiddish world music!!!! IYH you shall merit to greet Mashiach Tzidkeinu in your days!!!!!

Howard Gaventa: I sang on the 1st record and have the privilege of singing Ki Heim Chayenu with Nicky Borgenicht and singing Hamavdil with Doodi Rosenberg. My memories of over 50 years ago are still vivid. Going to Stamford hill with my father every Sunday for choir practice, which my father loved listening to. Yigal coming to our house with a cassette tape of him teaching me how to say yoim not yom. My mum Rica buying many records to give to all her friends. My sister Tina singing all the songs at home with my mum. I have taught all my children the songs from that record, and we sing yevonim every Chanukah together. Yigal brought the choir to norrice lea to sing at my barmitzvahs party. We sang the songs at my boys barmitzvahs. Tina, my brother David and I sang the songs with my mum the day before she passed away in 2020. So yigal has been a great influence in our family's life for all these years.

Wow I couldn't put it down. What memories. Yigal conducting exactly as I remember. I remember till this day when we were recording and I felt my voice was breaking. I tearfully and dramatically told Yigal that I "resign" and he would not hear of it and made me sing... 45+ years later I have not forgotten. Yigal Bezrat Hashem I wish you Ad 120, in good health and spirit. Yonatan (ex Jonny) Lehman.

When Jewish music was 'Jewish' and was 'music.' This is so moving to watch. It's a shame Yigal didn't produce more than six albums. [There actually was another album back in the day called "the Return of the London School of Jewish Song," with great songs, like "Ha'am," "Eliyahu HaNavi," "Kol Mevaser," etc, but, as I understand it, not many copies were produced and it's very hard to find. I'd be very grateful if someone would upload it!] No subsequent choirs hold a candle to the London School as far as quality, each song a veritable masterpiece of talent and authentic Jewish feeling. The intricate harmonies and creative arrangements of these eternal songs are also remarkable. Reb Yigal, may you merit a refuah sheleimah in the zechus of all ruchniusdike pleasure you have given us for all these many years. A grateful fan, Lakewood, NJ

מרגש מאד! איזה זכרונות...יגאל צליק כשרון אמיתי!

I showed to my father whose 70 years old, I've never seen him cry like this. So much emotions. Hashem bless us all

מרגש ביותר גדלתי על השירים האלה, יישר כח גדול לצאליק וכל בני המקהלה היקרים

If RU-vid was created for this video only - it would be worth it!

נהדר! התרגשתי עד דמעות! החיוניות של ר' יגאל לאוי"ט, הלחנים שהפכו נכסי צאן ברזל, ההרמוניות הנפלאות שגדלנו עליהן עדיין בפי הילדים של אז - סבים של היום, ארוע מוסיקלי שיירשם בדפי ההיסטוריה.

I got the London boys choir RECORD for my Bat Mitzvah in 1975 and those songs with the beautiful and pure voices are still the only way I know these songs! hearing them as grown ups singing in the same harmony is so moving. thank you!

איזה צמרמורות של נוסטלגיה מתוקה! מרהיב לשמוע איך הם מבצעים את ההרמוניות המקוריות והמדויקות גם כמבוגרים.

👆This precious Pirchei Reunion with Yigal Calek- Watching Zaidy’s coming together to sing the same songs 50 yr later ….it evokes so much emotion. (I’m glad I don’t cry for my ears, so I can at least hear the songs.) Growing up in the 60’s we lived, we sang and we loved Yigal Calek’s masterpieces!! We anxiously awaited every next release. I still remember the excitement when my father said he picked up the new release. Ripping open the plastic packaging. The smell of the new record. Seeing the choir grow up to become erliche Zaidys of today…is also quite an emotional moment... These songs anchor me right back to the 70’s. Watching this today….made me think how much klal yisroel has accomplished in the past 50 years - how we picked ourselves up from the ashes and rebuilt a new Jewish world- All the celebrations and tragedies we've lived through & experienced together, as a real family…..This reminds me, no matter what color Yarmulka or what size…. we as Yidden are a family- share the same memories, the same goals. Klal Yisroel are all traveling together as brothers and sisters, sticking together, in this one huge charter bus journeying through golus. Let’s all Daven that on Zos Chanuka that this Charter Bus picks up epic speed, so we can finally arrive at our destination- the Geulah haShlaima!!

Inspired, 50 years ago ,Inspired now ,Yigal is a world legend for Jewish heimishe music ,as I have told Yigal, his music and choir are pure,gets to the heart and נשמה

איזו נוסטלגיה!!!! השירים הטובים ביותר אי פעם. מתפללים ומאחלים רפואה שלימה ליגאל צליק

כל כך יפה ! Magnifique Wonderful ! תודה רבה מכל הלב, מתנה מן השמים

Real, authentic, classical Jewish Music. We sing your songs every shabbos at our table. Nothing like Yigal. Lots of good health and simchas.

What a treat, wishing R' Yigal arichs Yomim, thank you so much, please dont wait until next Chaunka for the Encore

Looking for a different pirchei song to listen to at work and came across this. Now I'm tearing up at my desk because of all the nostalgia. Such beautiful music that I still sing all these songs. Thank you!

Gadom Great meeting , beautiful songs and voices koloth min hachomaym , thanks ygal

Sensational! Just so beautiful and rich. Harmonies out of this world. There are no compositions like Yigal’s.

Made my night !!! These memories bring back such peaceful times can’t stop smiling

There is so much love and respect here. so beautiful.

לבככות מהתרגשות גדלנו על השירים האלו שלא נס ליחם...מתגעגת ליופי הפשוט הזה סביב התקליטים והקלטות....ואו תודה!

What a pleasure to see Yigal and his unforgatable smile and all those songs which remind us of our youth . Lionel and Channah Pirnay

01:03 אוי יוונים נקבצו עלי 04:05 קול ברמה נשמע - מנעי קולך מבכי 08:40 תעלה ארוכה (דרכך אלוקינו) 13:21 פדה בשלום נפשי - אני אל אלוקים אקרא 16:22 children of silence 21:57 אחת שאלתי 25:50 באין מליץ יושר 32:17 על זאת - ונתנו ידידים 35:59 עולם הזה עולם הבא 37:44 אנעים זמירות 40:30 מה נאוו על ההרים 44:06 ברכי נפשי 48:13 שמעו מלכים 52:19 למה ישבת 55:13 אני מאמין

I remember going to בניני האומה 6 בירושלים watching this live concert, we travelled from בני ברק . Wishing u all to do more of these songs , love them we used to sing them in sem, thank u Mr CAleck

מרגש ביותר על שירים אלה גדלנו,נכנסו לליבינו כאלו רק אתמול ,אין תחליף,...ר'יגאל צליק תודה רבה

What a beautiful heartwarming get together. Yigal’s songs are ageless and priceless. True authentic Jewish tunes sung with heart and emotion. May yigal and all his former choir together with klal Yisroel be zoche to sing the songs of harmony that welcome and usher in Moshiach tzidkeinu bekorov.

כמה רגש ונשמה עד היום לא מכיר מלחין בחסד כמו יגאל צליק שיאריך ימים

I was extremely moved to see Yigal conducting the choir like it was 50 years ago!!!! I suggest next time to have the reunion on zoom so us foreigners can join in!!!! I am especially delighted that באין מליץ יושר was sung so beautifully. I make a point of singing it if I am Chazzan on ימים נוראים and very few people join in!!! We all wish Yigal a רפואה שלמה . Michael Wilschanski 1970-74.

Sooo beautifully moving! Sooo much love in that room bless all of you!

I used to work for him 25 years ago. Boris, from Turkiye. I hope someone will send my regards to him. Used to call him George, Vivaldi. My mentor for life. Cant thank enough

From NY; beautiful reunión; Shalom everyone!!

How exciting! What a trip! Every time I watch I feel I was (or should have been) sitting there and sing and harmonizing too (even though I wasn't in the choir)! Good thing brother Yossi (who was in the choir) was there 😘 Timeless songs that have been part of our singing and davening repertoire for decades. A reminder how Yigal עמו"ש is up there with R' Shlomo and R' BZ Shenker as one of the forefathers of modern Jewish music!

Nostalgia. Absolutely brilliant!! Thanks so much for sharing, I've been listening to it all afternoon. (Would love them to get together again and sing all the old songs!). Wishing Yigal good health ad 120.

איזה יופי. כמה אהבתי לשמוע כילד את התקליט "פרחי לונדון-נגינה", המורה בבית הספר לימדה עוד שירים מתקליטים אחרים, ועד היום ישנו קסם לשירים הללו. קולות הילדים, "המבטא באנגלית", העיבודים. אין מילים. תודה גדולה.

תודה ענקית, כמעט שעה של תענוג צרוף.

That was so moving. I remember years ago when we went to his concert and he brought a rolls Royce on stage and the whole choir came out of it!! I was so excited and had never seen anything like it. After the first song l asked if we could stay for another and couldn’t believe that we got to stay for a whole evening!!!! Thank you so much for giving us such beautiful memories!!!

This brought me back to my childhood 50 years ago - just missing Yossi Sonnenblick :). Yigal Calek enriched our generation with true Yiddishe niggunim, with depth, emotion, and off-the-charts talent. How moving to see this reunion, amazing to see Yigal bli ayin hora still vibrant - it made me cry. Yigal, klal Yisroel is indebted to you, 'der zchus zohl dir baishtayn' many more years of gezunt!

My whole childhood 🧡❤️💛 I even had to sing that solo in French in our girls, I think I still know it!! Un soir d’ete… lol And years later my son Yoni was in the choir when they briefly came back in the 90s…we went to New York on tour and I had to find him a bright green shirt! 😂💚 Refua Shelema Reb Yigal 🙌🏻 What beautiful memories, thank you Freidi and Daniel kol hakavod for making this happen!

איזה יופי!! כל הילדות שלי Toute mon enfance

I know this msg sound like pie in the sky talk but a reunion performance or even album is very much desired. This has left us all with a taste for more. Please, please, please, someone push for this to happen.

What an incredible treat. This brings me back to my living room 50 years ago listening to the records on repeat. And those Brooklyn college concerts! Life didn’t get better :). Hashem should grant him 120 happy and healthy years !

Wow! Beautiful. I find myself smiling ear to ear. What memories!

Thank you. Sunday afternoons singing in the choir were amazing. This brings some of that to life. wonderful!

הדבר הכי יפה שנעשה בשנים האחרונות , נמסתי עוד ועוד, רגש צרוף בעליל בעוצמות בלתי מוסברות, כל הילדות, כל התקליטים שאמא ז"ל קנתה לנו איך איזה יופי מקסים תודה ענקית על השיתוף עשיתם טוב בעולם. בריאות איתנה לאיש והאגדה יגאל צליק. המצווה הזאת לשמח איש מבוגר זה גן עדן. צריך יותר אהבה ועידוד לגיל המבוגר ערב כזה יישאר לו לנצח.

מיוחד צופה בזה שוב ושוב. מרגש עד דמעות. בריאות, אריכות ימים ויישר כח לר' יגאל, ולמזמרים!!!

Thanks for sharing, my family grow up with his music, such great memories.

Really heartwarming, I had the zechus to daven WITH reb yigal in my childhood and he always was heard giving the birkas Kohanim with real feeling. He should be gezunt ad 120.

Thank you for posting ..I was the youngest member of the London Pirchim Choir at the time which I was honoured to join at the age of five (around 1970)....I went on to have a successful career as a stage and screen actor..Now over fifty years later I remember all the lyrics (even if I still don't understand them) and haunting melodies as though it were yesterday...Thank you Yigal!

R’ Pinny thanks so much for this video. Watched/listened to it 3 times already. Can’t get enough of it. They were the best.

Thank you so much for this great reunion! It brightened my day! What a Kiddush HaShem to hear again so great music that do so much to our Neshama! Thank you! Timeless!

Absolutely incredible Positive Energy & meaning!!

They have to do this again. I'd love to see and hear some of the children or grandchildren of choir members join in the singing so we hear the sweet voices we remember so well. Imagine that, a boys choir and no scandals G-d forbid! Yigal Calek has enriched our lives may he be blessed with long life and good health!

Wow! It’s incredible that after 50 years so many of them still remember their original harmonies. Thanks so much for videoing this (with good immersive sound!) makes me wish I was around when all these ppl were young. Thanks for preserving this amazing reunion!

Omg it already happened that I was trying to find out how yigal is these days, but didn't succeed finding him, I was beyond thrilled and emotional to see this beautiful heartwarming reunion!!! It's beyond words how nostalgic this is and thanx for sharing with the world for the ones who grew up with this there are no words!!!!! Cant wait to show it to my elderly mother who is b'h in the 90's she will love it!! Yigal still brings joy to this day to see him lead just like 50 yrs ago. Wishing him best of health till 120 yrs !!!!!!

So special how lucky we are to have these beautiful melodies now part of our mesorah

Wow. There are no words that share my emotions. This is the pure music we grew up with Amazing to see Yigal with the boys of a few years ago. Just beautiful. May you all blessed with arichas yomim vishonim tovos ad bias goel

I have watched this already multiple times. Thank you so much for sharing

I'm speechless. I grew up with this tape. I.loved it so much

Just incredible!! Pure joy to watch!! I was so disappointed when the video finished. Definitely need more!!

This is fab - such a great sound in an informal setting, thanks to everyone still knowing their well worked out harmonies, and of course the richness of the nigunnim. Far superior a sound to many a recording (over)produced in a studio.

Such beautiful music - and warm childhood memories. The sounds of yesterday are still exceptional! Thanks for posting.

Such beautiful classic songs! Such a joy hearing them live as if they were recorded yesterday ❤️❤️

Merci beaucoup. Toute mon enfance !

Grew up on these songs. Was singing along. What nostalgia! Thank you for organizing and posting

Wow! This video is precious! Will be watching this over and over! It’s! Such memories

Pure and amazing old memories!!! Txs for Sharing!

מדהים ...מחזיר אותי לילדות ...כמה מרגש ....

איזה נוסטולגיה... זכרון ילדות קסומה. בריאות ואריכות ימים יגאל צליק היקר

Watch Yigal at 51:30. That movement is unique to Yigal as a conductor. The shoulder movement and palms upwards. Conductors generally conduct with palms down, or tending downwards. Yigal will often have his palms upwards. Think of the cover of the Mah Novu album. It gives a whole different feeling to the choir.

Chills. Priceless. Thank you thank you. They're so fantastic. We need a kumzitz with all of the songs.

פשוט תענוג צרוף...לא מפסיק לשמוע ולהתרגש

25:50 באין מליץ יושר. Beautiful song

Magical. Childhood memories. Eternal melodies. Thank you

Wooow… very, very nice. Unbelievable, there is something special. May God bless you

Thank you for sharing this! Gave me the chills. Great people, great music. Great memories.

Wow. There are no words. I would've liked to see and hear Joel Portnoy sing Bamarom. Or R Simcha Steinhaus sing Darkecha. Shame there is nothing like this today. Pure and authentic from the heart.

I saw this a few days ago and then listened to all the Pirchei videos and understand why Calek and his kids are so unique. Nothing inUSA compares. To put him in the same boat as S.C. is almost a chilul-hashedm. Calek is still inimitable.

Can't get enough of this!! Love it!!

Beautiful, such great songs. When I was growing up I listened to london boys choir many times.

that is the most heartwarming video I have watched lately. so happy to see Yigal is getting better. I grew up on your songs, brought so much good to my life! thank you.

יפה מאד ומאד מרגש . יאריך ה' ימים ותזכו כולכם לשיר בבית המקדש במהרה

Wow this was really nostalgic! Thank you for sharing this special reunion with us all..

Simply cannot stop watching this video. Thank you for sharing, Rav Dunner!

Beautiful nostalgia! Thank you for uploading.

We need a reunion disc!!! Your voices are so rich and beautiful together 💕💕

My generation is missing out. My father used to love this music, and these bring back really fond childhood memories. I'd love to see them go back to the studio for a reunion.

Thank you so much for sharing this. You can hear the joy in the room. These are The songs of my youth. Brings me back to sitting in the living room listening to their music. @27:40 Od Yizkor Lonu. Reminds us just how good they were and the guys still sing well together.

פשוט צמרמורת ועונג❤️

Excellent thank you for posting, love every song. Fond childhood memories

Thanks so much for posting this video. Absolutely beautiful! I've been letting it play in the background on my office computer for the past few days while I work, and I love it. It's also amazing to finally learn the origin of so many heartfelt songs I remember from sleep-away camp in the mid-1980's! (We didn't have these records in my childhood home.) Yasher Koach!

Is it really so long ago?? We got up with this music and went to sleep with it. Great!!!

this is just amazing. how much happiness we can give to others. look at him, he is jumping from joy, he definitely earned it, and so many times older people don't get the opportunity to enjoy it. how nice of each and one of those guys.. and the guy at 9 o'clock, with the vest, wow, how musical he is, especially towards the end of the video when the shot's start to kick in.. he lets himself sing. and the clapping on the table. p e r f e c t. amazing video. will definitely reach 500K viewers very fast.

Thank you soooo much for sharing this. Wish we were there - much love from ירושלים עיר הקודש Ruthie and Joel Portnoy

Incredible. Such great memories. Thank you for putting this out.